I was browsing Dribbble when I noticed a few shots using an effect which appears to look like a magical beam of light, or a "magical smoke" and I could not find out how to create such an effect. If ...

I'm looking for a way to transform the RAL color palette to hex or RGB so I can use the colors in CSS (all/any of them).
Is there an XML file someone can point me to, or a database somewhere, that's ...

I have an image with a linear gradient overlay (banner image on this page EDF Energy - Our Campaigns. I have set the RGB colour in CS4 to R: 29 G: 31 B: 79. However, when I save the file for web the ...

Arabic text doesn't show properly in Adobe Illustrator. Even with a font that supports Arabic text (e.g. Arial), the text is back to front (left to right, not right to left) and the letters don't join ...

I'm trying to break down what skills I need to develop to draw a realistic human figure.
At the moment I got:
Gesture I have no good idea on how to exercise this, I mean, I have no good way to know ...

Some advise is wanted from you great guys and gals on the below image.
the idea is to represent a "hot spot" of "waves" where your eyes are drawn into.
This concept makes you feel like clicking the ...

I have a problem with Adobe InDesign. When I change the page's background color (by modifying the Swatches>Paper color), and export it to PDF by going to File>Export, in InDesign - the outcome of that ...

I'm not a designer (as is probably obvious from the vague question), but I'm being asked to design the signage that will go on the front of our offices. Our logo is deliberately simple, blocky white ...

In many proportional fonts, numerals (i.e. 0123456789) have identical width to facilitate vertical alignment. My question is simple: are there any characters that conventionally share the exact same ...

I've recently graduated from university (within the United Kingdom) and I'm trying to get my first step on to the ladder within the Graphic Design industry. It has been several months and I'm having ...

Im making a ios app, it needs to target newer retina devices aswell as the older 3gs and ipad 1.
Usually id just export them at 72pi, but for retina is it 150dpi or 300dpi (or another)
Am i right in ...

I need to do a poster, 8m width by 3.7m height, consisting of photographic elements that will be seen from varying distances. I've talked to the printer and they can do it at 150ppi's.
The issue here ...

I'm presently working on an iOS application and I am attempting to reverse engineer their standard alert dialog window. I have managed to figure out what the alpha value on the background it uses is ...

I am designing a website and am planning on slicing up my template in Fireworks and then exporting it to Dreamweaver. When this is done it does of course go into a table. I have a title and nav bar ...

Why doesn't type look crisp and clear in Fireworks/Photoshop etc?
I am the only one working on a PC at my work place, I've noticed that the text in my Fireworks looks a bit ragged on the edges, its ...

When I'm coloring a drawing in PS, if I set the opacity to 50%, color, then lift my brush, then nick the same area, it stacks the opacity for a more opaque results. I want it to all be the same unless ...

Batch -export means that I may need to add certain transformations such as anti-alias, contrast-fixes and resizing. SVG here means I am using Inkscape. One layer here is a sprite. I currently export ...

I have a number of svg files created in Inkscape. I would like to know if there is an utility where I can export all the svg files into multiple pdf/png files.
I have around 150 such svg files. The ...

Frutiger 55 was the winner of the crude typo-battle I hosted in my mind this week (I felt really sorry for poor Gill Sans, one of my top-5 of all time). I want to use it for a Web App that is hosted ...

When designing a horizontal menu for a website in photoshop (like the img attahced) whats the best way to space them ?
In html/css i would just use float:right; margin-left:20px; but in photoshop the ...